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Brooklyn Runners Eager to Get Back on the Road for Brooklyn Marathon

Brooklyn Runners Eager to Get Back on the Road for Brooklyn Marathon

The marathon is returning in 2022 with an updated route, and runners are already signing up.
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Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Campus to Be Transformed Into Affordable Housing Complex With 900 Homes

Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Campus to Be Transformed Into Affordable Housing Complex With 900 Homes

The $400 million redevelopment is part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn Initiative
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Shadow Group Backs Towers That Would Shade Botanic Garden

Shadow Group Backs Towers That Would Shade Botanic Garden

It's just an abandoned spice factory — a beat-up, vandalized, forgotten plant in Crown Heights that hasn't made a strand of saffron in 20 years. Next door, barbed-wire walls frame an empty square of gravel.
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Ranked-Choice Voting Was a 'Mixed Bag' in Brownsville, Says Latrice Walker

Ranked-Choice Voting Was a 'Mixed Bag' in Brownsville, Says Latrice Walker

The state lawmaker will hold a public hearing to review the 2021 primary election experience.
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'Magical' Improvised Performance in Bushwick Aims to Raise $100K for Jazz Musicians

'Magical' Improvised Performance in Bushwick Aims to Raise $100K for Jazz Musicians

The project is a collaboration between artist Jim Watt and jazz trumpeter Antoine Drye. The pair are raising $100K for jazz musicians impacted by the pandemic.
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Brooklyn Nets Give 50 Smartphones, Vouchers to Graduating Seniors in New York City

Brooklyn Nets Give 50 Smartphones, Vouchers to Graduating Seniors in New York City

The Nets teamed up with Motorola and Verizon to donate the new smartphones to high school seniors living in temporary housing
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24 BK Neighborhoods in City's Top 50 Most Expensive, and Prices Are Rising

24 BK Neighborhoods in City's Top 50 Most Expensive, and Prices Are Rising

A recent report by Property Shark show prices in Downtown Brooklyn have increased 79% in 2020
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The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Flatbush and East Flatbush

The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Flatbush and East Flatbush

Crime is up in Flatbush and East Flatbush, but down in Brooklyn as a whole.
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Bombarding Rainfall Turns NYC Subway Stations, Highways Into Gushing Waterways

Bombarding Rainfall Turns NYC Subway Stations, Highways Into Gushing Waterways

An ocean of flooding woe confounded commuters Thursday afternoon as pouring rain inundated city streets and turned an uptown Manhattan subway station into an underground river. The water was waist-deep at the W. 157th St.
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Brooklyn Politicians 'Heartbroken' Over Assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse

Moïse was gunned down in his home early Wednesday morning
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